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Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1999-Present

The American Antiquarian Society has been awarding visiting research fellowships since 1972-73. These stipend-bearing awards have enabled a diverse group of researchers to spend anywhere from one month to a full year in residence at the Society.

research for a suite of artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of anna Blackwood Howell

Melissa

Range

2013

Columbia, MO

poet

Baron

research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator"

Aimee

Parkison

2013

Charlotte, NC

fiction writer

Hearst

research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans

Amina

Gautier

2013

Chicago, IL

fiction writer

Hearst

research for historical novel titled "Band of Gideon" about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island

Lynn

Thomson

2013

New York, NY

dramaturg, theater director

Baron

research for for play tittled "The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls"

Sarah

Gerk

2013-14

Oberlin College

visiting teacher

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music

Ryan

Carr

2013-14

Yale University

PhD candidate

Peterson

Arts and Sciences of American Expression: 1820-1890

Shana

Klein

2013-14

Univeristy of New Mexico

PhD candidate

AHPCS

The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900

Maria

Bollettino

2013-14

Framingham State University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

Slavery, War, and Britain's Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years' War

Margaret

Abruzzo

2013-14

University of Alabama

associate professor

Lapides

Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin and Moral Responsibility

Nazera

Wright

2013-14

University of Kentucky

Assistant Professor of English

Ford

Girlhood in African American Literature, 1827-1949

Lincoln

Mullen

2013-14

Brandeis University

PhD candidate

Peterson

Varieties of Religious Conversion

Sonia

Hazard

2013-14

Duke University

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America

Andrew

Fagal

2013-14

Binghamton University

PhD candidate

Peterson

The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic

Faith

Barrett

2013-14

Lawrence University

associate professor

Botein

Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America

Marina

Moskowitz

2013-14

University of Glasgow

associate professor

AAS-NEH

Seed Money: Improvement and Exchange in the Nineteenth-Century American Garden

Adam

Thomas

2013-14

University of California, Irvine

PhD candidate

Legacy

Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World

Sean

Trainor

2013-14

Pennsylvania State University

PhD candidate

Peterson

Men's Grooming Advertisements and the Making of the White Male Body

Robert

Lee

2013-14

University of CA, Berkeley

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851

Brenton

Grom

2013-14

Case Western Reserve University

PhD candidate

Peterson

The Death and Transfiguration of American Psalmody ca. 1805-1840

Lindsay

DiCuirci

2013-14

University of Maryland

assistant professor

Botein

History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855

Jonathan

Senchyne

2013-14

University of Wisconsin-Madison

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

Our Paper Allegories: A Sense for the Material Text in Antebellum American Literature